Dan Hoyle’s
It Takes All Kinds

Back for another Rising!
In Person at the San Francisco Mainstage

Written & Performed by Dan Hoyle

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Thursday, March 7 at 7:30pm

Ticket Information

Tickets: $15 – $25 General Seating sliding scale

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and additional tickets may be available for purchase at the door.

75 minutes | No Intermission | Ages 15+
Please do not bring infants to the show

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About the Show

See Dan Hoyle putting together his newest piece. Be part of the creative process, as the first audience!

Based on immersive reporting on the front lines of the biggest political battles in the country, from school board showdowns in Sarasota, Florida to organizers in the streets of Atlanta, from the churches of Charleston, South Carolina to a former violent extremist in Missouri who’s deradicalized hundreds of violent extremists. Encounter the moving, funny, surprising true stories of the unlikely activists who are pushing the country forward against all odds. 

Artist Biography

Dan Hoyle is an actor and writer whose brand of immersion research theater has been hailed as “riveting, funny and poignant” (New York Times) and “hilarious, moving and very necessary” (Salon). His solo shows BORDER PEOPLE, EACH AND EVERY THING, THE REAL AMERICANS, TINGS DEY HAPPEN, and CIRCUMNAVIGATOR, have toured the country and overseas including The Public Theater, Culture Project, Baltimore Center Stage, Berkeley Rep, Cleveland Playhouse, Mosaic Theater Company (D.C.), Portland Center Stage, Playmakers Rep, Painted Bride (Philly), The Park in Kolkata, India, the Samuel Beckett Theater in Dublin, Ireland, Taliesin in Swansea, Wales, and a five city tour of Nigeria (Lagos, Abuja, Bauchi, Jos, and Calabar).

Hoyle has been recognized with many awards, including the Will Glickman, Prize of Hope, Bay Area Theater Critics Circle, multiple TBA awards, and Lucille Lortel (Nomination). He’s been supported by grants from the Edgerton Foundation, Pew Theater Initiative, Fleishhacker Foundation, and been commissioned by Aurora Theater, First Person Arts, San Francisco Playhouse and The Working Theater. He holds a double degree in Performance Studies and History from Northwestern University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Nigeria in 2005-2006.

He has been an artist-in-residence at Columbia University’s Heyman Center for Humanities, Trinity College, Dublin, and Santa Clara University. He lives in Oakland with his wife, an art teacher in East Bay public schools, and their two children.